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foot of the stair now built up. The stair rose
at the right & was 3'.4" wide. The entrance to
this stairway had been at one time been part of a
main entrance through the exterior part of the
wall which had been built up and the scarce:
:ment built in front of it. On the outside lies
a large triangular block of stone which may have
formed the lintel of the doorway. The greatest
height of wall remaining on the exterior is 5' - 6'.
Within the interior are the remains of various
small enclosures formed of flags set on
end. Immediately outside the closed entrance
on the NE [North East] are the remains of an outer wall and
at 16' back from the broch the face of a wall
concentric with the main structure has been
exposed for a distance of some 24' and is
visible passing onwards round the building
towards the S. [South]. The interspace in front of
the closed entrance is paved.
Among the relics found were some fragments
of Roman "Samian" ware, & a few pieces of
coarse unglazed pottery decorated with an
impressed chevrony pattern, a small crucible
7/8" in depth with a portion of melted bronze
adhering to the bottom, a long handled bone
comb 5 1/2" in length, a lamp of sandstone
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